His Excellency: George Washington

New York: Vintage Books / Random House, Inc, 2005. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5x0x7. First printing. Laminate beginning to peel at wrapper edges. 2005 Trade Paperback. xiv, 320, [4] pp. To this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J. Ellis brings the exacting scholarship, shrewd analysis, and lyric prose that have made him one of the premier historians of the Revolutionary era. Training his lens on a figure who sometimes seems as remote as his effigy on Mount Rushmore, Ellis assesses George Washington as a military and political leader and a man whose "statue-like solidity" concealed volcanic energies and emotions.